Winners and Losers From Immigration Reform

Despite much skepticism, a comprehensive immigration reform bill could be passed into law in 2014's first quarter. Here are potential winners and losers.

Sweeping immigration reform, which was approved by the Senate in a decisive 68-32 vote late last month, would provide amnesty for as many as 11 million undocumented workers. Plenty of obstacles stand in the way of the bill becoming law, not least a rancorous House of Representatives. But the Senate's bipartisan support steps up the pressure on the House to adopt matching legislation.

Passage could happen early next year, says Daniel Clifton, the Washington analyst at Strategas Research Partners. "Although at times it...